Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the Culture of Death rears another of its many ugly heads.
Those who brought us the “I Had an Abortion” T-shirts and other abortion-wear, are now proudly tweeting about their actions on Twitter.
Salon reported on the online “I Had an Abortion” campaign, which started last Wednesday. Women, using the hashtag #ihadanabortion, began boasting that they, too, had ended the life of their unborn children. Organizers say that the reason for the campaign is to “promote empowerment and take the ‘stigma’ out of abortion.”
It’s not the first time a woman has taken to the Internet to share what she’s done to her unborn child.
Last February, Angie Jackson, took to Twitter to live-tweet her abortion after taking the abortion-inducing drug RU-486.
“It’s not that bad, it’s not that scary,” wrote Jackson. “It’s basically like a miscarriage.”
Salon writer Tracy Clark-Flory compared Jackson’s efforts to that of watching a medical procedure online for having a tooth extracted.
Flory described the #IHADANABORTION campaign as a “part of a long tradition of feminist consciousness-raising.”
“I’m not sorry. I’ve never been sorry. I will never be sorry,” wrote one tweeter.
“Yep, #IHADANABORTION..more than one, now that I am ready I am now 7 months pregnant w/ my 2nd child…my body, my decision!” wrote another.
Has life become so trivialized that women can so callously talk with pride of killing their unborn sons and daughters? What’s next? Online videos of women’s babies being aborted?
Lori Ziganto, writing over at the NewsRealBlog, offers a great perspective on the campaign.
Not only does such a campaign trivialize life, but it also ignores the very real experiences of so many other women, and men, who have been traumatized by their decision to have an abortion, women routinely seen on the television show “Faces of Abortion.” Women like Carla, (in the video) who are not only sorry for the decision they made, but also unable to forget what they’ve done, and the thousands of women who’ve gone through post-abortion retreats through Rachel’s Vineyard.
The #IHADANABORTION campaign is a sad commentary on where we’ve come as a nation.
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A jaw-dropping news item indeed…I have seldom been more appalled at the behavior of those who are fanatically pro-abortion. Now, every generation looks at the behavior of the times and says, “This is shocking! This would never have happened in the good old days! We are going to hell in a handbasket!” But what has happened in the past to equal this type of callous behavior? The idea of granting a “right” to abortion was—and is—considered shocking enough. But if we’ve gotten to the point where some are beginning to believe that societal “stigma” must be taken away from abortion, and that having an abortion must be something to take “pride” in, then I can only conclude that we are truly reaching the outer limits of moral decency.
There are numerous ministries who work with women who have been hurt by abortion. If God would give these women the courage to “Tweet” their pain it would be the most effective counter-attack to the self-centered burblings of their Weird Sisters. We need to expose the lies of the pro-abortion lobby; abortion is NOT a ticket to Nirvana.
They say that imitation is the height of flattery. I am a post abortive Silent No More regional coordinator in Texas. We must be doing something right to illicit this kind of response from the other side. Those women and men who have come forward in spite of their shame and proclaimed the inherent danger of the abortion procedure are making a direct impact on this heinous industry. We are Silent No More.
This is far from empowerment of the women. If they want to empower women they should teach them to say no to sex outside of marriage, that’s real power. The power of NFP is incredible in marraiges if they want to space or avoid pregnancy within the marraige. Abortion and artificial contraception only enslaves women to the whims of men who don’t want to take resposibility for their actions. I feel sorry for these women that lie to themselves that they are ok with killing the child within them.
Its only JESUS CHRIST who can save us from this insanity. Were are our morals? Do we really know where are going from here? Is the world moving from sanity to insanity?!
It seems that “stigma” is now the thing to be avoided above all other things. Stigma, it seems, is worse than the worst sin, or even death itself.
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